The Avalanches' legendary first album, Since I Left You, was a modern classic, built from more than 3500 music samples. Sixteen years on, they're finally releasing a second one - but will it resonate in an age when everyone samples?

Michael Hutchence bought name recognition to Dogs in Space.
The Making of Dogs in Space14 avril 2016

Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space was a punk circus/social document that alienated many. But on the film's 30th anniversary, it seems the world has caught up with it and a new audience of fans has emerged.

Music – as a tool of mobilising people against power – tends to suit a more progressive agenda.
AAP/Richard Milnes24 juillet 2015

Cold Chisel’s Khe Sanh was played at Reclaim Australia rallies in various cities last weekend – but won't be again, after a public statement by the band's frontman, Jimmy Barnes. Was it a good song choice?

Angus Young is still touring the “Australian Sound” with AC/DC.
EPA/Sara Johannessen 1 juillet 2015

Bassist and lead singer of The Church, Steve Kilbey is one of Australia’s most prolific musicians. The band released their 25th album, Further Deeper, in October and will play The Queenscliff Music Festival…

Wednesday night sees the 2014 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards honouring the greats of Aussie pop. The ARIAs has a much more international feel this year, with the largest ever overseas…

Electronica musician Chet Faker, on Future Classic distributed by Warner, is nominated for the ARIA’s album of the year.
EPA/ Anthony Anex14 octobre 2014

Since the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) award nominations were released last week much of the talk has been about how 80% of the nominations for album of the year were released “independently…

Playing at Bennetts Lane is an indication that you can be considered a ‘serious’ jazz musician.
mandykoh27 août 2014

Last week’s announcement that Melbourne’s Bennetts Lane Jazz Club will close in nine months came as a shock to most in the Australian jazz community. Bennetts Lane has been a focal point for local jazz…

‘Shoehorning your imagination into the condition of another human being is the A game in songwriting.’
Mark Seymour, AAP/ MG Promotions26 août 2014

At the Melbourne Writers’ Festival this week, a panel of poets, writers and performers will read and reflect on the poetry of the first world war. Among them is Mark Seymour, the former frontman of Hunters…

It is the landscape of the interior that is most strongly associated with Sculthorpe’s music.
'Two movements - Peter Sculthorpe', a portrait by Danelle Bergstrom, 2008 Archibald Prize. AAP/ Supplied15 août 2014

Australia’s most distinguished composer Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) has left a magnificent legacy – his music. Sculthorpe pioneered a uniquely Australian sound. The distinctiveness of his music emerges…

Australia’s national youth station, Triple J, has come in for some criticism lately, with a spate of articles accusing it of homogenising Australian music tastes or excluding too many local acts from the…

Music TV programs, like rage, have provided exposure for artists who would have otherwise been drowned out by the vast amount of music available online.
shutterstock.com12 octobre 2013

Digital production and distribution has made it easier to access music than at any other time in human history. But no one starts at “A” in iTunes or on YouTube’s homepage and listens to everything. There…